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How an immigrant’s son rose to make the classic French symbol, the baguette, better than the French themselves

A traditional distaste for the National Front may be softening, leaving it in the best position in its 45-year history

Fears of a decline in ‘Frenchness’ rise as the European nation is losing the core of its historic provincial towns

Melenchon’s advisers depict him as a kind of French Bernie Sanders, but with no strong party establishment to block his way

His aura of authority is partly a response to the menacing international context with France and Germany, threatened by unpredictable behemoths of uncertain attachment to European values

Washington takes training role in the face of budget cuts, militant threat